PAY ATTENTION, DUE SOUTH PEOPLE: i don't think any of you have me but not pearl friended, BUT: pearl_o and i are running a fic challenge! it brings the best of two worlds together: ray kowalski and the old 97s. what happens is you go to this entry and look at the lyrics and read the rules and claim some old 97s lyrics, and then you have TWO MONTHS to ( Read more... )

( west wing 7x12: internal displacement )

for the second morning in a row, the guy who lives next door is listening to the original john prine & iris dement version of "in spite of ourselves" loudly enough that i can sing along to it in my own living room without missing a word.

( blah blah blah college basketball upsets )

1. much like with josh and sam, and rayk and fraser, i desperately want john sheppard and rodney mckay to get a happy ending. but like with those other two pairings, there's a part of me that knows that they won't ever get one, no matter how much i want them to. which is why stories like chasing sheppard (sg:a au, chasing amy mcshep style) and edges ( Read more... )

[pictures from my trip to chicago here.]

with re: best ever mail to come home to: a check from the cashier's office because i overpaid tuition this semester. a check for THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS. omg.

( with re: wot i did this weekend )

the bulk of sorority rush started last night, which is sort of disconcerting. hundreds of undergrads running around campus and franklin street in little black dresses. i'm not anti-sorority, i never have been, but i don't think i would have been happy in one and i'm glad i didn't do my undergrad somewhere like carolina where it is a massive part ( Read more... )

in honor of labor day, today i ... went to work, even though the rest of systems1 had the day off. but only sort of went to work. i sat in my office and ran ghost images on new computers and surfed the internet while the images ran, mostly so i wouldn't have to do it tomorrow ( Read more... )

i took some blurry photos of my new apartment.

do any of you know anything about changing ports on download/torrent clients to circumvent firewalls? if you do, will you talk to me about them? i'm trying to bully acquisition into working around my internet service's firewall but i don't know anything about it.

i was thinking about slings & ( Read more... )

ten things that are making me happy right now, monday morning at one thirty seven am

1. last night both parts of "in the shadow of two gunmen" were on, on the abc saturday night reruns, back to back. this is never a time when i don't want to watch those two episodes. so fucking brilliant.
   
   
2. this exchange on overheardnyc:Crazy lady: Canada doesn't do this. You see ( Read more... )

so unemployment? totally conducive to watching lots of tv.

dr. who: ( vague spoilers all the way through the end of parting of the ways )